The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 636

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On February 1, Model’s Second Army took over the defense of the north. Their main force was stationed in the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula, which was the territory of the original fairy tale country.

After arriving here, under the order of Mainz, Model dispatched two armies to the three Nordic countries and began to take over the defense of Norway and Sweden. Because Finland and Blue were the farthest away, the German army did not enter here at the first time.

Mainz transferred Model’s troops from Central Europe for two main purposes: the first was to prepare for the upcoming Battle of the Sun. This large-scale landing operation was bound to become the largest military operation of the German army since the start of the war. Although the number of troops invested may not be as many as the Gallic Campaign, this operation is more difficult, so more troops are mobilized.

In order to win this battle that concerns Hans’s national destiny, Mainz has assembled three million land forces and prepared more than 1,000 warships and transport ships.

In addition, the Air Force will also unreservedly invest all its forces in this operation to cooperate with the Army to launch the operation.

Model’s Second Army was included in the first batch of landing troops by Mainz because it was very good at defense. It cooperated with 50,000 marines as the vanguard of the entire army, the first batch of beach landings, and then built positions on the spot to resist the enemy’s crazy counterattack!

For this reason, Model’s troops must be dispatched to the front line and cannot continue to stay in Central Europe.

As for letting Model’s troops go to Northern Europe to take over the three Nordic countries, this is entirely to train their combat capabilities under cold weather conditions and let them adapt to this severe cold weather!

The latitude of Western Europe is relatively low and the climate is warm. The German army has lived and fought here for a long time. Suddenly, they were asked to run to the extremely cold area of the Arctic to fight, and they naturally could not adapt.

Most of the land of the northern bear is located in the frigid zone, where the climate is extremely cold. In order to conquer the bear, the German army must adapt to the climatic conditions of the frigid zone. Otherwise, they can only fight in the summer and autumn seasons of the year. The spring and winter seasons will lose combat capabilities, which will give the bears a chance to breathe.

With the tenacious vitality of the bear and the strong mobilization ability of Starling, if they cannot be killed with one fatal blow, the war will inevitably enter a stalemate stage.

In this case, the war will become a meat grinder, and both sides can only keep filling the battlefield with lives!

A meat grinder-style war is not good for anyone.

The first world war was precisely because the two sides fought several meat grinder battles, resulting in heavy casualties among young and middle-aged people on both sides, and as a result, they could not recover after the war.

After World War II, the adult males of the bears suffered too much loss due to the war, resulting in a long-term imbalance in their population structure. Even 70 years after the war, this ratio has not been reversed.

To be honest, if the Third Reich had not caused the bears to lose too much blood in the Soviet-German War and lost tens of millions of men, the result of World War II would not be a situation where the Eagle Sauce and the bears divided Europe.

With the powerful combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, the Soviet army must have pushed Europe in the end, and the Eagle Sauce and the British Empire might only be able to keep the British Empire. If that were the case, the world pattern would probably be completely different. The bear would most likely be the one who laughed last in the US-Soviet hegemony!

Hans’ population is not small, more than 85 million, the second most populous country.

But it is definitely not a large population, after all, 160 million people, almost twice as many as Hans!

In history, the bears have such a large population but have not been able to eat up the whole of Europe. If Hans suffered too much loss on the bear side when attacking the bears, and millions of young people died in the battle, I am afraid they would not be able to eat up the whole of Europe.

Originally, the total population of Europe was several times that of Hans. Hans relied on powerful military force to integrate Europe. If Hans’ army suffered heavy losses on the bear side and too many people died in the battle, it would be hard to guarantee that European countries would not have dissent.

Therefore, the war with the bear must be cautious. Not only must the bear be defeated, but also it must be won beautifully and decisively. The sooner the battle ends, the less loss Hans will suffer!

Therefore, before the war, Hans must be fully prepared, taking into account the various climates, environments and terrains of the bears, so as to avoid the situation in history where insufficient preparation resulted in failure!

Mainz had explained all these to Model when he went north, so Model was not only practicing beach landings during this period, but also practicing fighting in extreme cold weather.

In addition to Model’s Second Army, Guderian’s First Army had been transferred to the Pas de Calais area at this time.

This place is closest to the mainland of the sun never sets. This strait is only a few dozen kilometers wide. If the speed is fast, it will only take an hour for the troops to land on the beach after boarding the ship. If the landing goes smoothly, the landing ship can go back and forth three to five times a day and send 150,000 troops to the beachhead!

If 150,000 troops land smoothly, the German army can probably open up a beachhead with a depth of more than 20 kilometers, which is of great strategic significance for the landing of their subsequent troops.

As the First Army with the strongest offensive capability and the best equipment, the task of opening up a beachhead naturally fell on their heads!

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The frequent mobilization of the German army caused panic in the British mainland to spread rapidly!

At this time, the German sea-breaking war in January had begun to exert its power.

Although the British mainland sent a naval fleet to escort its merchant ships, due to the insufficient number of destroyers, a large number of merchant ships on this route were still unprotected.

These unprotected merchant ships dared not go out to sea alone, because once a single merchant ship encountered a German submarine, it would almost be a direct sentence of death for them!

The panic of the merchant ship owners caused a large number of ships to stay in the port and dare not go out, causing the shipping capacity of the British mainland to decline significantly! The food and supplies of the British mainland have always relied on overseas supplies. Once the transportation of such supplies is affected, the sales prices of various materials in their country will immediately begin to soar!

Among them, food, as a necessity of life, has the most obvious price increase!

From mid-January, the price of food in the capital and even in the entire British Empire began to soar. The price of food quickly increased from one penny and five pounds to one penny a pound. Then, within a week, the price of food was like riding a rocket, and quickly became ten pence a pound, and a hundred pence a pound!

Soon, the price of food became a staggering one pound a pound!

One pound is only about 450, which is about 0.9 kilograms.

You know, as the most developed and old power in Europe, the average wage income of the British Empire is only about 350 pounds a year, and the monthly income will not exceed 30 pounds!

At this time, one pound is equivalent to the value of 400-800 yuan in later generations!

A few hundred yuan to buy a kilogram of rice, this price is already exaggerated to an outrageous level!